Publisher's Synopsis
Agatha Christie meets Jane Austen in this light historical mystery set in England's elegant Regency period. Eager to escape London following the scandal of her husband's death, beautiful Lady Fieldhurst accepts an invitation to summer in rural Yorkshire at the home of Sir Gerald and Lady Hollingshead. But country life is not the panacea she imagined: tension reigns and tempers flare. When a dinner party ends in the death of a kindly old vicar, Lady Fieldhurst suspects foul play and. secretly sends for Bow Street Runner John Pickett.
